Bethel Church

The community around Bethel Church

It takes 6.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
• Diabetes: 19.5%
• Obesity: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
• Poverty Rate: 19.2% (7.9–30.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.4–16.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethel Church

• Mt. Zion AME Dentontown — 1.6 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
• Bethany Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Bethany Baptist Pastorium — 3.1 mi away in Slate Spring, MS
• Pleasant Hill Church — 3.8 mi away
• Double Springs Church — 4.2 mi away
• Bradford Chapel Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Gore Springs, MS
• Cross Road Church — 4.6 mi away
• Friendship Church — 4.7 mi away
• New Hope Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away